Fare-box.



W. COX.

FARE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 1. I914.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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WILLIAWI COX, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

FARE-BOX.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

Application filed June 1, 1914. Serial No. 842,293.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM Cox, of the cityof Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Dominion ofCanada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Boxes;and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

My invention relates to a fare box comprising an examining chamberhaving a cover with a fare receiving slot therein and an opening at thejunction of one of the vertical sides and bottom through which the farescan pass to the magazine, the opening being controlled by two sets ofintermeshing fingers, one pivoted to the bottom, and the other pivotedto said vertical side, so that they can swing into normally openrelation to permit of the fares within the examining chamber passinginto the magazine when the fare box is slightly tilted from its uprightposition and into closed relation to prevent the fares passing from themagazine into the examining chamber when the fare box is inverted, orpartly so.

The invention also relates to the provision of two hinged shutterswithin the examining chamber arranged to swing across the fare receivingslot and close it when the fare box is inverted, so that the fareswithin it cannot find an exit through said slot, as hereinafterdescribed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings; the figure is a broken perspective view of the fare boxshowing the relative construction and arrangement of the parts.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts throughout thespecification and drawings.

In the cover a of the examining chamber 6 is a slot 0 through which thefares are admitted to the examining chamber. Within the examiningchamber 6, contiguous to the cover a are two hinge pins d, d,respectively, located on opposite sides of the slot 0, and suspendedfrom the hinge pins, d, d, are shutters, e, 6, each of a sufficientlength to swing from its hinge pin across the fare receiving slot 0, theshutters being weighted, as shown at f, to accelerate their swingingmovements.

At the junction of the bottom g with the vertical side i of theexamining chamber In is an opening it through which the fares pass fromthe examining chamber into the fare magazine, the opening it extendingacross the bottom 9 for the full width of the examining chamber 7).Pivoted to the bot tom 9 at one side of the opening it is a set ofsegregated fingers j which normally assume an inclined position withrelation to the bottom 9 so that their free ends will be slightly belowthe level of the bottom 9 and thus provide a normally unobstructedpassage, below the lower edge of the side i, for the delivery of thefares from the examining chamber into the fare magazine 70, and beneaththe fingers j is a stop Z to limit their downward movement when the farebox is in an upright position and thus determine the size of the passageno existing between the fingers j and the bottom edge of the side i.

Pivoted to the side 2' is a set of segregated fingers h intermeshingwith the fingers 3' when the fare box is in an upright position and wheninverted, and swinging clear of the fingers j when the fare box isslightly tilted from an upright position to then provide an unobstructedpassage for the fares to the fare magazine.

When the fare box is inverted, or partly so, the fingers 3' turn ontheir pivots until their free ends engage the side i and the fingers itturn on their pivots until their free ends engage the stop Z, thefingers h then cooperating with the fingers j to close the passage fromthe fare magazine into the examining chamber.

By means of this construction, it is impossible for the fares deliveredinto the fare magazine to reenter the examining chamber. When the box isinverted, the shutters e, 6 swing from their open position across thefare receiving slot and close it, so that any fares which may have beenretained within the examining chamber cannot be extracted through thefare receiving slot.

Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a fare box, an examining chamber, having a cover with a farereceiving slot therein, through which the fares are admitted to theexamining chamber, and having an opening at the junction of the bottomand one of the vertical sides through which the fares pass from theexamining chamber into the fare magazine, two sets of segregatedfingers, one set pivoted to the bottom and supported to zontally acrosssaid opening, and the other set pivoted to said side to intermesh withthe fingers of the first set,each set of fingers 5 moving into normallyopen relation With the other set, When the fare box is slightly tiltedfrom an upright position, and moving into closed relation when the farebox is inverted. In a fare box, an examining chamber,

[0 having. a cover With a fare receiving slot gated fingers, one setpivoted to the bottom Copies of this patent may be obtained for fivecents each,

extend substantially horiand supported to extend substantiallyhorizontally across said opening, and the other set pivoted to said sideto intermesh with the fingers of the first set, each set of fingersmoving into normally open relation With the other set, When the fare boxis slightly tilted from an upright position, and moving into closedrelation When the fare box is inverted, and tWo shutters Within theexamining chamber at opposite sides of the fare receiving slot andpivoted to swing across it when the examining chamber is inverted.

Toronto, May 26th, 1914.

, WILLIAM COX. Witnesses:

CHAS. H. Rronns,

PAR MoNTmNY KENNEDY.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

